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CommNet Service Manager 7.0
Improve Efficiencies with a 360 Degree View of Primary and Secondary Storage
Key Benefits
uEnables IT to more effectively
plan, track and implement
data lifecycle strategies and
tiered storage
uProvides strategic planning
insight into lifecycle data cost
uSimplifies oversight of and
insight into complex, dynamic
storage environments
uAllows administrators to
“manage by exception” in
complex environments
uFacilitates management &
delivery of data protection,
access and availability as IT services
uMonitors enterprise wide
performance throughput of
data storage devices
The Business Challenge
its use. Drawing upon a universal cost category
Are your administrators toggling between inter-
for each media type, CommNet software
faces, logs and event viewers just to gauge
automatically rolls up the lifecycle cost for each
how much storage your business applications
host or application into a unified whole. This
are using? Spending hours trying to figure out
includes not only the production data copy, but
if backup, archiving or snapshot operations ran
all backup data copies and even archive copies
as they were supposed to? All while worrying
for a true lifecycle perspective. The end result
about delivering on its IT service level agree-
being what used to take weeks to collect and
ments. It’s a juggling act for the IT team, and
calculate is now updated routinely, expediting IT
a difficult one at that.
decision-making.
The CommVault® Solution
sive point of view that lets IT easily track all
Better Planning of Backup,
Migration, Replication and
Archival
CommVault® data management operations and
The CommNet software displays usage of
storage resources across an enterprise, depart-
storage resources, like tape libraries, disk drives,
ment or data center. The CommNet solution
retention policies and data sets, all critical pieces
monitors data protection operations against a
of a data management and protection operations.
predetermined threshold that measures service
Comprehensive trending and prediction of data
CommNet software offers a comprehen-
levels. The software automatically balances
tactical operations against strategic objectives in
a single service level metric, vastly simplifying
the overseeing of the operation. Easy drill down
allows administrators to quickly see what’s right
and what’s wrong.
uMeasures attainment of
Calculate Lifecycle Data Cost
defined service levels
IT organizations are constantly asked how
Centrally monitor success and,
performance criteria for all
CommVault® protection, archive,
replication and snapshot related
activities, from a single console.
business applications use primary, secondary and
offline storage. The CommNet solution brings
together, in one place, crucial information about
primary, secondary, and archive storage and the
data protection and retention policies that impact
management operations for backup, migration
and archiving, provides the insight IT needs to be
more effective. This dynamic planning perspective
ensures that IT will never be caught short.
Information At Your Fingertips
The CommNet software provides
comprehensive, aggregate reporting of
multiple clients and client-groups as well
as detailed summaries for all registered
Monitor current
and historic
Data Protection
Activity by
application or
file system
type to identify
data growth
spikes and
trends
entities in the CommNet domain. These
reports and summaries provide information
at a glance about primary and secondary
storage, and include vital troubleshooting
information crucial to any administrator.
This information includes the following predefined reports and summary views:
u Primary
Storage Growth
u Secondary
u Data
Storage Growth
Protection
Coverage
Summary
Activity
Establish Service
Level Metrics
to measure the
success of data
protection relative
to short term and
long term goals
Job Success
Data Growth
Window Utilization
Service Level
Consecutive Failures
u Data
Recovery
Activity
Job Success
u Media
Management
Performance
Media Prediction
Media Agent
Library
Drive
Track historic
media
consumption
and predict
future
consumption
based on data
growth and
data aging
u Summaries
Multiple CommCell Status
CommCell Summary
Hardware Guidelines
Client Status
Client Data Growth
Subclient Data Growth
Client Service Level
Media Agent Status
Library Status
Device Status
Media Summary
License Summary
Event Viewer
Job Controller
Replication Monitor
Tie It All Together
CommNet software unifies monitoring and
Unlocking ROI through Resource
Management
management of multiple CommVault products
The core of the CommVault product suite is the
and their related storage resources. CommNet
Common Technology Engine (CTE) architecture
provides a unified strategic view that helps
which provides common services for each of the
to streamlines operations, improve storage
data management applications in the suite. It is
resource utilization to optimize data access and
through the CTE architecture that CommVault
identify trouble spots. The CommVault products
software is able to offer unparalleled insight into
and components managed include: CommVault
your production storage and secondary managed
Galaxy® Backup & Recovery, Data Archiver,
data copies.
Quick Recovery snapshots, Continuous Data
™
Replicator, giving insight into primary, secondary
and archival storage use and allocation, plus data
retention lifecycle characteristics.
The CommVault approach to Resource
Management presents you with a full 360
degree view of all data management across your
enterprise—including storage, archive, backup,
recovery, snapshot and replication activities.
This knowledge can be used to optimize
operations, proactively increase system uptime,
establish and meet service levels and compliance
standards, and improve resource utilization while
reducing management costs.
Key Features and Benefits
Features
Benefits
Storage usage monitoring and management
Improves utilization rates because storage resources are optimized.
Track and trend storage resource use
Offers deeper understanding of key dynamics driving storage consumption.
Storage resource forecasting
Ensures that resources, such as disks, drives and tapes, can be better
allocated to meet expected demand.
Dynamic service level monitoring of
Advances IT decision-making and matches successful operations to
data protection
business objectives.
Data lifecycle costing with host or
Links the amount of data stored with cost of tiered storage used to retain it,
application view
improving utilization rates and reducing total cost of ownership.
Restore operations reporting
Reduces downtime and raises data availability because recovery operations
are now visible.
Rolls up individual domains into
Simplifies management of complex, distributed storage network environments.
aggregate view
Monitor entire lifecycle of information
Optimizes retention, availability and access for critical application data.
seamlessly
Associate protection, recovery, and retention
Facilitates delivery and management of backup, recovery, archiving operations
of data to application and host
as services.
Monitor and link storage by application to
Assures that resources are optimized to ensure maximum data availability.
underlying storage infrastructure
Global management interface
Easily manages backup/recovery, data migration and snapshots, secondary
storage usage, data retention lifecycle. Implement IT best practices. Assure
compliance requirements are met.
Operational process monitoring
Improves productivity and data access. View backup success, primary and
secondary storage usage, operational jobs, clients, libraries, drives, volumes
across data center, department or region.
View historical and trending information
Elevates understanding of what operational processes succeeded and failed,
on the screen or in reports
how protected is data and what data is not protected.
Unification of backup, recovery, migration,
Critical strategic viewpoint improves understanding of operations.
archiving, data availability and snapshots
Logical, opposed to physical, view of the
Provides improved management across different physical entities, like servers,
enterprise and applications
libraries, and applications. Allows for easy grouping of like entities.
Shares Common Technology Engine with
Resources, host, applications and data sets are identified and managed in
other CommVault products
a single, common way.
System Requirements
Platforms
AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux
and Novell NetWare
Note: System Requirements are subject to change. For up-to-date System Requirements, please refer to product
documentation on the CommVault website at http://www.commvault.com
CommVault’s Simpana™
suite of Data Protection,
Archive, Replication,
Resource Management and
Search software is designed
to work together seamlessly
from the ground up, sharing
a single code and common
function set. This exclusive
single-platform architecture
enables unparalleled software
efficiency, performance and
reliability for unprecedented
control over data growth,
costs and risk.
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